Two scientists may look at the same data and draw different conclusions. Faced with a problem to solve they may see different solutions as the obvious way to go. The cause of this is scientific taste: one's crystalized collection of priors about how the slice of nature of interest works. I like to think of taste as tinted glasses: you can look at a phenomenon through different lenses and notice different things with each. These views are not to be thought of as right or wrong in isolation. Ra...
